How Books Are Organized
Agathos Books uses three different ways to organize books, and they’re easy to mix up. Each one is managed by a different person and serves a different purpose.
The Three Ways at a Glance
Section titled “The Three Ways at a Glance”| Categories | Collections | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who manages them | Agathos Books (automatic) | Library admins | You |
| Scope | Every book on the platform | One library | My Books |
| Examples | Fiction, Theology, Biography | “Pastor’s Picks”, “Kids Area” | “book-club-2025”, “gift-from-mom” |
| Where you see them | Library rails (one library or all of them), filters | Collections strip on a library page, filters | Filters (My Books, Library), book detail |
| Can you create them? | No — assigned automatically | Only library admins | Yes — anyone, on your own books |
Categories
Section titled “Categories”Every book on Agathos Books is automatically classified into broad categories like Fiction, Theology, or Children’s based on its metadata. You don’t tag books yourself — categories are how the platform groups books for browsing and discovery.
Use categories to find books. See Browsing by category for details.
Collections
Section titled “Collections”Collections are curated groupings inside a single library, like “Pastor’s Picks” or “Kids Area.” A library admin creates them and assigns books to them, and they show up on the library page so members can browse them at a glance.
Collections live in one library at a time — the same book can be in “Pastor’s Picks” at one library and not at another. See Browsing library collections for details.
Tags are your own personal labels on books in My Books. Only you see them, and you can use anything that’s useful — “book-club-2025”, “gift-from-grandma”, “to-donate”. They’re great for short-term tracking and personal organization.
See Using tags for details.
Which Should I Use?
Section titled “Which Should I Use?”| If you want to… | Use |
|---|---|
| Discover books across the platform by topic | Categories |
| See what a particular library has curated | Collections |
| Track your own reading, lists, or memories | Tags |
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